Artist spreads splash of holiday spirit on local windows

JENNIFER PULLIAM paints a window scene at Sugar Vibes celebrating Sweet Home's year to provide the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree.

As the holidays get closer, artist Jennifer Pulliam puts her mark on the season in Sweet Home by painting business windows.

Sugar Vibes commissioned Pulliam to paint a scene on its window last week for the Capitol Christmas Tree celebration, and City Hall and Sweet Home Library will also have their windows decorated this week.

As Pulliam designed the scene for Sugar Vibes of a truck transporting the tree toward Washington, D.C., she realized it's a pretty big deal to be sending a tree from the Sweet Home Ranger District of the Willamette National Forest to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol,...